18a, Charles Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. House. 9 related planning applications.
18a, Charles Street W1
- WRENN ID
- open-chapel-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 18a, Charles Street W1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 286 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50777, -0.14774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 18A is a corner end of terrace house built around 1750 to 1753. It has a stuccoed exterior from the early to mid-19th century and a slate roof. The building is four storeys tall, with a basement and a dormered mansard. It features a two-bay front facing Charles Street and a six-bay return to Chesterfield Hill, which includes a projecting full-height entrance bay and a full-height canted bay on the right side. The ground floor is rusticated, and the doorway has a moulded architrave with a stepped keystone that rises to a cornice supported by consoles, which in turn rise from panelled pilaster strips. The entrance includes a six-panel door and a rectangular fanlight. The revealed sash windows do not have glazing bars, with the first-floor windows featuring entablatures over flat arches and the sills of the second-floor windows supported on consoles. There are plat bands and sill bands on both elevations, along with a crowning cornice and blocking course. A cast iron balcony is present on the first floor facing Charles Street, and there are cast iron area railings. The building is included for its group interest, situated on a corner site.
Local climate
18a, Charles Street W1 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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